Sharing moments with the world, or just with a few — fast photo and video posting, photos on your Home Screen, multiple accounts in one sleek, native Pixelfed app.
Scatto is a fast, native iOS client for Pixelfed — the photo-sharing network built on the open fediverse (ActivityPub). A decentralized alternative to the big media platforms: your photos, your feed, in your hands.
Built for speed: browse your home, local, and global timelines with smooth scrolling and edge-to-edge photos.
Share photos with your loved ones or with fellow photo enthusiasts — either way, you own your content. Scatto is free and open source.
New to Pixelfed?
Create a free account on any Pixelfed server — for example scatto.social or pixelfed.social or one of the many other instances — and sign right in.
FEATURES
• Fast, clean photo uploads — capture or pick from your library
• Post video, converted on device so it plays everywhere
• Crop and filter your photos before you post — including fun filters like Lo-Fi and 16-color (experimental)
• Your post appears instantly while it uploads in the background
• Home, local, and global timelines
• Like, comment, boost, and bookmark
• Follow people and manage your profile
• Push notifications for likes, comments, follows, and boosts, on servers that support them
• Stories (experimental, off by default) — share a moment that lasts 24 hours
• Direct Messages (experimental, off by default)
• Collections (experimental, off by default) — browse and fill your Pixelfed collections, and drop a post into one while you write it; new collections are created on your server's website
• Report, block, and mute — keep your feed yours
• Home Screen widgets — the latest photos from your timeline, a QR code that opens your profile
• Share extension — post to Pixelfed from other apps
• Multiple accounts
• Tag the place — nearby cities suggested from your photo, matched on your device
• Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Basque
ABOUT PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
Push needs an interface that most Pixelfed servers, including
pixelfed.social, don't provide yet. If your server is one of them, Scatto tells you so in Settings — you'll still see every like, comment and follow inside the app, and the icon badge keeps updating in the background, but nothing will arrive while Scatto is closed.
Scatto works with any Pixelfed instance. It's open source and doesn't track you.
Scatto is an independent app and is not affiliated with Pixelfed.
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SEE WHICH PHOTOS YOU HAVE ALREADY LIKED
The heart on a photo in the timeline now says whether the like is yours. Filled and red when you are one of the people who liked it, an outline when you are not — so you can tell at a glance, without opening the post.
EDITING A SHARED PHOTO NO LONGER CLOSES SCATTO
Share a photo into Scatto, crop it, tap Save — and the app would disappear, back to where you shared from, with nothing saved. The editor was working at full resolution inside a part of the app held to a much smaller memory budget than the app itself, and it was being shut down for it.
ALSO IN THIS RELEASE
• The dot beside an account clears when you leave the account you have just read, rather than a couple of minutes later.
• The "Liked" confirmation draws its heart in the same red as every other heart in the app.
• Pictures in comments are shown whole instead of cropped to a strip, and a video or GIF in a comment now plays instead of sitting there as a grey box.
• Private messages moved out of Experimental, to Settings ▸ Notifications, under Follow requests.
Version 2.9.4
The developer, Vinzenz Greger, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Location
User Content
Identifiers
Other Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Vinzenz Greger
Size
22.6 MB
Category
Social Networking
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Infrequent Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Realistic Violence Profanity or Crude Humor Mature or Suggestive Themes Horror/Fear Themes Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References Sexual Content or Nudity Guns or Other Weapons
Contains Messaging and Chat User-Generated Content Social Media